International Law and National Law Overview
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What is the main focus of international law?

  • Enforcing local, administrative, and judicial processes
  • Deriving from statutory enactments and executive orders
  • Regulating relations of individuals within the state
  • Regulating relations of states and international persons (correct)

    • Which of the following is NOT a source of international law?

  • General principles of law
  • International customs
  • Statutory enactments (correct)
  • Treaties

    • How is conflict resolved in international law?

  • Through state-to-state transactions (correct)
  • By redressing through executive orders
  • By adopting the laws of the land
  • Through local, administrative, and judicial processes

    • What doctrine is based on the Philippines' adoption of generally accepted principles of International Law?

    <p>Doctrine of incorporation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does national law regulate?

    <p>Relations of individuals within the state</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main function of a treaty in international law?

    <p>To regulate relations of states</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which doctrine requires the enactment of international law principles by the legislative body to become part of municipal law?

    <p>Doctrine of transformation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Under what conditions do international conventions become part of Philippine law?

    <p>Upon the concurrence of two-thirds of all members of the Senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for international agreements concluded between states, governed by international law, and embodied in a single or multiple related instruments?

    <p>International conventions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must exist for a custom to be deemed as an international custom?

    <p>State practice and opinio juris sive necessitates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which treaty was entered by the Philippines as an example of a multilateral treaty or convention with two or more states?

    <p>1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for international customs also known as customary law?

    <p>Customary law</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Under what condition does an international convention become valid and effective under Philippine law?

    <p>Upon the concurrence of two-thirds of all members of the Senate</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is required for a custom to be deemed as an international custom?

    <p>$ ext{State practice and opinio juris}$</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which element states the belief that a given practice is rendered obligatory by the existence of a rule requiring it?

    <p>Opinio juris sive necessitates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which element refers to rules of law derived from consistent conduct of states?

    <p>International customs or customary law</p> Signup and view all the answers

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